Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee, looking for box turtles.

Rockalina has become a viral sensation since being rescued in early 2025. The Eastern box turtle was in failing health, having lived in an indoor, unnatural environment for decades. Post-rescue, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants ...

A man charged with smuggling endangered native SC turtles to China was arraigned in federal court Tuesday for international ...

The preserve said it's not looking for "punish" whoever took the turtle, they just want her back.

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ...

Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat fragmentation, road mortality, and agricultural hazards. Researchers track turtles using radio telemetry and GPS loggers to map ...

Ambassador animal Michelle, an Easter box rescue turtle, was outside at the preserve's Nature Playscape on April 3 when she ...

Michelle is missing. The young box turtle the size of a silver dollar disappeared from Conestee Nature Preserve where it ...

Conestee Nature Preserve reports it is searching for its baby box turtle after she was taken on Friday.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning the ground for something most people would never notice. Somewhere under the ...